A procedure is described for the purification of a neutral protease from fermentation broths of Vibrio proteolyticus. The key feature of the purification scheme is the selective, irreversible inactivation of a contaminating exoenzyme, aminopeptidase, by alkali treatment, rather than removal of this enzyme by conventional chromatographic methods. Fermentation broths or concentrates were brought ...

this study was aimed to investigate the possibility of using magnesium hydroxide as an alternative for sodium hydroxide in deinking of newsprint and magazine mixture. the old newsprint and magazine mixture (onp/omg -70/30) was treated by magnesium hydroxide at three levels: 1, 1.5 and 2 percent (based on oven dried pulp weight), for 20 min. optical and mechanical properties and effluent cod loa...

BACKGROUND Sweet sorghum is regarded as a very promising energy crop for ethanol production because it not only supplies grain and sugar, but also offers lignocellulosic resource. Cost-competitive ethanol production requires bioconversion of all carbohydrates in stalks including of both sucrose and lignocellulose hydrolyzed into fermentable sugars. However, it is still a main challenge to reduc...

Rice straw contains a large amount of lignocellulose which is difficult to be decomposed. The objective this study was determine the effect alkaline pretreatment (sodium hydroxide, NaOH) and microbial agents on decomposition rice straw. experimental detail consisted NaOH (control solution pretreatment) agent (Bacillus licheniformis agent, Bacillus subtilis Trichoderma viride no agent) treatment...

PURPOSE To investigate the role of reactive oxygen species (ROS) as the prime initiators of the angiogenic response after alkali injury of the cornea and observe the effects of antioxidants in preventing angiogenesis. METHODS The corneal epithelia of SOD-1-deficient mice or wild-type (WT) mice were removed after application of 0.15 N NaOH to establish the animal model of alkali burn. ROS prod...

porous niti alloys has a series of unique properties such as shape memory effect, superelastic behavior and energy absorbability that make them usable in a wide range of medical and industrial appliances. but the more probability of ni release from a porous niti compare to the nonporous one has restricted it’s uses in implants. in the present research for resolving the problem, performing a cal...

The impact of NaOH as a ballast water treatment (BWT) on microbial community diversity was assessed using the 16S rRNA gene based Ion Torrent sequencing with its new 400 base chemistry. Ballast water samples from a Great Lakes ship were collected from the intake and discharge of both control and NaOH (pH 12) treated tanks and were analyzed in duplicates. One set of duplicates was treated with t...

The use of natural fibers in reinforced composites to produce eco-friendly materials is gaining more attention due to their attractive features such as low cost, low density and good mechanical properties, among others. This work thus investigates the potential of waste abaca (Manila hemp) fiber as reinforcing agent in an inorganic aluminosilicate material known as geopolymer. In this study, th...

The efficiency of two methods of pretreatment (NaOH and H2O2) on lignocelluloses-saw dust, wheat straw, sugarcane bagasse and rice bran-was compared in the present study. Alkali treatment of lignocelluloses relatively removed more hemicelluloses and lignin leaving behind cellulose content in the residues than peroxide treatment. Crude cellulase of Aspergillus niger, produced on the pretreated s...